There is measures everyone can take by speaking up, holding political representatives accountable, boycotting Israeli products or products by companies complicit in Israeli crimes, by demonstrating, by organizing and by educating ourselves.

As an individual we have little power. As a collective we have more than enough power, which is why it is crucial never to become defeatist.

Libya and Ukraine are two warning examples what happens if you give up your nukes. There is no reason for Iran to trust this US administration or any other administration to come.

So Iran at the very least will try to maintain a level of being ready to develop and build a few nukes in a short time frame, if any outside threat would become more serious. In order for Iran to not feel such a threat to manifest, the whole power dynamics in the region would need to change fundamentally. But with Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey being strategic threats and Israel also having nukes, i don’t see any scenario where Iran would not have reasons to feel threatened.

From research to large scale trials i would expect building the processing industry to take at the very least a few years. And once things are in place, China can just reopen the floodgates and give these new refiners a hard time, unless they are heavily protected by their government then.

So it requires a dedicated long term strategy to counteract, which will take some years. Also in the meantime all dependent industries are suffering big-time while China can still export the finished products and further strengthen their industries.

In terms of economical power this move is much stronger than Trumps tariffs and there is no rewards to be expected for countries who stick it out for the US. The US has already made it clear that it will just make you suffer more, the more you give in to them.

Google translate is using the same approach like an LLM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation

So is DeepL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator

And before they were using neural network approaches they used statistical approaches, which are subject to the same errors as a result of bad training data.

The UN noted at least 36 Israeli attacks on Gaza between 18. March and 9. April in which only women and children were killed.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/11/un-says-israel-threatening-viability-of-palestinians-in-gaza-amid-attacks

You are interpreting way too much in what i said. I don’t get why you got so offended by me pointing out that for me in the context “being” does not just entail “conscious beings”. Also looking back at the dictionary under 1 a “the quality or state of having existence” and 1 b “something that is conceivable and hence capable of existing…” it provides even more abstract definitions.

Otherwise i can just point out that a reliable dictionary is providing multiple definitions for a word shows that there isn’t such a clarity to proclaim that “only interpretation x makes sense”. At the very least not to the extend to attack someone as acting in bad faith when pointing out that the term is not precise.

From your source:

1 c: conscious existence : life

3: a living thing

sentient beings
a mythical being

The term “being” is very broad and the dictionary you quoted does account for that by addressing these possibilities. This shows that arbitrarily reducing the meaning to “sentient” beings or “conscious” existence is not correct.

In terms of “sentience” or “consciousness” these also cannot be applied black and white to animals or plants. There is animals which show a quite complex consciousness and there is animals, where we couldn’t observe these (yet). At the same time we see more and more examples of plants showing what could be called “pain” or “social life”.

OP could have just talked about “animals” instead of “beings”. Talking in terms of “beings” only muddies the water both between plants and animals but also animals and humans. And the latter is highly problematic, which is why we must not be careless with these words.

Some Fascists work to infiltrate movements such as veganism or animal rights precisely with the goal to devalue human life through weakening the perception of value of human life over animal life. I don’t think this is the case for OP or the majority of people in these movements, but they need to be vigilant against it.

If you consider plants living beings then you kinda have to in order survive.

In order for that to make sense for a company, there must be one dominant distribution or their software must be the truly one and only for that purpose. Otherwise they just loose market shares to other companies willing to serve all distributions.

It is possible in principle and of course the MBA bros will try to pull stunts like this. It will be much more difficult to execute successfully though and it will be much easier to challenge from an anti-trust aspect.

Everyone running a linux distro won’t be a fairytale land, but it is still a huge step into the right direction.

When you are suffering vitamin deficiency it is always time to get those vitamins in.
When you are sleep deprived it is always time to go to bed.
When your teeth are rotting it is always time to clean them.

Your condition will get worse until you make use of the remedy. And the reminder to make use of the remedy will stay the same as long as the condition lasts. Just as Windows is getting worse and worse the only remedy is to use another OS, but some people choose to help themselves sooner than others.

Depends on the age group imo.

I think the people who experienced internet from ca. 2005-2015 will have the best English on average. Because in this time English was simply necessary to get a grip on a lot of media, games, websites… Now a lot of things are translated, sometimes by force (youtube, reddit…) and with bad auto-translation. Also German content creators became much more widespread since 2015, so now people might never need to look past their language horizon.

Of course the dates and statements aren’t absolutes, just general observations.

There is many Jews who oppose Israel and want nothing to do with it.

You should not alienate them. Answering Israels racism with discrimination against Jews isn’t better and only serves the interests of the Zionist ideologues that often cooperate with Antisemites as they have the same goals.

The UAEs support for the RSF militias seems to be mostly financially motivated and have prolonged the war in Sudan, as well as enabled the atrocities committed by RSF militias to gain and retain access to Sudans natural resources and trade routes.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-rsf-key-ally-uae-logistical-and-corporate-interests

I recommend you to do the switch now. Linux is more accessible than ever and there is no reason to give them any more of your data. Also it helps you to transition step by step where it might take a bit longer to get used to a different way of doing things.

That is the logic of isolationist policies. Whether Trump succeeds or not depends on whether the EU and other trade powers let him succeed. Some industries in the EU are already lobbying against the EU, so it sucks up to Trump. Letting them succeed means letting Trump succeed.

Sounds like something that could be solved by proper taxation of wealth and profits from capital.

Like at the time when the US and other countries were experiencing their greatest economic boom, best infrastructure for the time and best access to education and economic opportunities.

Sounds healthy in the long run. We have way too much financial economy leeching off of the real economy. It needs to melt down to a reasonable size.

If you are diving the first comes in very practically.

And this is why Ireland, France and others weakening the EU response to US tariffs for alcoholic beverages is dangerous. This is only encouraging him and he will use any sign of weakness to bolster himself.

And in 10 years we will need 128GB RAM in every computer just to load a website that could have been 1MB of html and embedded images in a browser using 256MB of RAM.